A Tremendous Moment

Night and Day by artist Robert Weigand

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs


If  you are given a moment to preserve in life, what would it be?  If your memory has kept a record of that tremendous moment, very likely, you will  want to experience it  once more. It will feel like a miraculous event, a re - birth in a form that is  welcomed with anticipation and pleasure. 
  Walt Whitman said in "Song of Myself"

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,

You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,

You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.